SS/PS MOVIE DISCUSSION

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

I will mostly answer questions that I can answer without re-watching
the movie, because I don't have the time to re-watch at the moment,
sorry :-).


> 1. Do you remember the first time you saw SS/PS? What was your 
> impression? Had you read any of the books? How did the movie affect 
> your HP experience? Do you experience the movie differently now?


zanooda:

Yeah, I remember it well, we (me and my son) waited for this movie so
impatiently, with many hopes and expectations :-). I was disappointed
and I am still :-). As for my HP experience - the movie made me like
the books even more.


 
> 2. Harry's birthday begins moments after midnight when Hagrid 
> arrives and ends after the Welcoming Feast as Harry sits in the 
> window petting Hedwig. What do you think of this time line?


Of course, the time line is all wrong, but I don't see how they could
do it differently in the movie. They couldn't have shown the rest of
the summer, could they? Let's just assume that Movie!Harry's birthday
is September 1st :-).

 
 
> 3. What's the chance that Neville was learning to fly on the same 
> broom that young Severus used? What's the difference between what 
> happens to Neville on this broom and what happens to Harry in the 
> Quidditch game?


In the movie - no difference at all, IMO. In the book Neville's broom
didn't do any of the things it did in the movie, he just kicked off
too early and too hard, it wasn't the broom's fault :-).


 
> 4. Harry receives the Invisibility Cloak for Christmas. It's our 
> first sight of a Deathly Hallow. Does knowing what you know now 
> change your thoughts about the Invisibility Cloak?


Well, I pay more attention to it, I guess, kind of like "oh yeah, here
it is" :-).

 

> 11. Ron comes into his own in the chess game--does he ever 
> reach this height again?


No, never in the movies (yet).


 
> 13. Professor Quirrell does some amazing magic. Is it his 
> ability or does having LV in his head provide something 
> extra. Do you think JKR got the idea of broomless flight 
> from this scene?


I don't know about JKR :-), but before DH I really hated it that
Quirrell could fly - it was not something that we ever saw in the
books. After DH I can believe it, and Quirrell is redeemed in my eyes
:-). I didn't like how he fell apart at the end though, that was too much.

 

> 16. Did the movie do an adequate job of contrasting the wonder 
> of the wizarding world with the darkness of the wizarding world?


No, not this movie :-).


 
> 17. Snape was set up as the bad guy all through the movie. Were you 
> as surprised as Harry that he had been protecting Harry? Did you 
> expect something different from Snape in the next movie?


Hey, that's the question only for those guys who didn't read the book
:-)! *I* knew from the start Snape was not the villain of the movie.


 
> 18. Are there any scenes that you particularly like or dislike?


I really dislike the scene where Quirrell curses Harry's broom. I
don't understand why DD is present at the match - Quirrell wouldn't
have dared to do something like that in DD's presence, and in the book
he even says so himself. In the movie Snape murmurs counter-curses,
and DD just sits there like a dummy, doing nothing and clapping his
hands :-). Couldn't they cut DD out?


Thank you for the questions, sorry I couldn't answer more. Maybe later
:-).


zanooda